Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-05-20

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the opening of the Milwaukee Industrial
Exposition this year, has been subscribed
by citizens of the Cream City.
The stove-melde,s' STRIKE has collapsed
all the strikers outside of st. Louis hav-
ing been ordered to return to work.
II. NC, q japanese youth of noble
family, II years of age, has been ad-
mitted into the naval academy by Secre-
tary Whitney at the request of the
Japanese government.
As result of the spring floods it will
be necessary to build a new stone pier at
the west end of the iron bridge acrsss
Black river, at Black River Falls.
Ex PRESIDENT HAYES has been rendered
the presidency of the Ohio state univer-
sity, of which he recently became a trus-
tree. He has not yet signifed his accept
ance.
The Iowa State Board of Health favors
the immediate resembling of the existing
quarantine in that State against Illinois
cattle.
MAJOR BEN: PEBLY PoORE was stricken
down from the effects of heat and over
work in the committee rooms of the
capitol at Washington Tuesday afternoon.
He tainted Cead away but soon recovered
consciousness. He is now G7 years old.
ScxvEs OF most disgraceful rowdyism
were enacted at the park in Toronto
Tuesday afternoon while O'Brien was try
ing to speak. No violence % a serious
nature occurred, however, and both Mr..
O'Brien and Mr.. Kllbrides completed
their speeches with whole craAiums.
TIE government receipts have heen
very heavy so far this month and the ex-
penditures LEES than usual. The receipts
are $I7,8O1, ,154 aud the expenditures So
loo, 1856 net gain of Sl2,645, $40. The
available surplus according to the treas
urer's calculations, is now stated at S42,-
0OsO0O, an increase of about $lO,O0O,COO
since the lat inst.
THE suffering from the drouth in GER
tain Texas counties is severe. The com
missioner of Bexar county about San
Antonio nave appropriated $1,000 for
public roads for the sake of relieving
some 500 settlers. Men will be employed
at 75 cents a day and paid wholly in pro
visions. Medina county adverti-es for a
loan OF $1,000 to be wholly applied in buy
ing meal and meat.
TIM number of immigrants Lana at
New York Wednesday was 38O2, the larg
est ever received in one day. Two steam
ers. brought over 1000 each, and one
nearly 200. The largest previous days
work was III 1873. The present rush is
from all over the world, the heaviest
steamship-load of all coming from Mar
Reilles. The risk of an ocean steamship |
with 200 stecrnge passengers is enor-
nous.
CURIOUS evasion of the payment of
tho treasury department the other day.
A flock of sheep was driven across the
Mexican border and duty assessed upon
them live stock. They were then
sheared and the wool placed on the mar
kot without having been subjected to
duty. This arrangement resulted in a
saving of about 80 per cent. in the mat
tor OF duty alone.
Candidates for the associate Justice
ship, made vacant by the death of Justice |
Woods, are bobbing up serenely all over |
the south. A prominent southerner, who |
is on the most intimate terms with the |
president, Is authority for the statement |
that Senator Gibson of Louisiana is by |
far the most probable successor to Asso-
ciate Justice Woods of the supreme court. |
According to this authority the president
would prefer to mako the appointment
from Louisiana rather than from any
other of the half dozen states within the
circuit, and Senator Gibson in every re
HiN't i'h'''N t'AN AN'I o'i Ati 'AiV ~
sition, which is represented to be the am
bition of his life.
THERE are millionai resses as we'll as
millionaires nowadays. The richest of .
New York women ia Mrs. Hetty Green.
rated ut S3O,o00,OOO. Next comes Mrs,
Mark Hopkins, estimated all the way
from $20,OOo,0o0 to Si0,O0O,0OO. Mira.
Terry is worth $50, OO0 Mrs. John
Jacob Astor Ss,o0O,Ono Mrs. Thomas A.
Scott $5,OoO,o0o, Mrs. Joseph Harrison
the same, Mrs. Edwin Stevens Sl5,OOO,000
and the widows of Drs Aver and Jayne,
the patent medicine men, from So 0o0,
600 To $4,000 each.
Tux Pennsylvania high license law
goes into effect June 80, and Is considered
worry satisfactory, though the fee does
not ruu as high rs in Illinois. The rate is
$500 fol Philadelphia, Pittsburg and
Allegheny; Sto0 in the smaller cities;
5000 in boroughs, and 500 in townships. |
The granting OF licenses is given, in the .
large cities as well as in the state, to the /
court of quarter sessions, which probably
removes the issue as far from politics As